RocketPod
RocketPod is a top-down 2D space shooter with RPG elements. The player controls the "rocketpod", a small mining vessel with four rocket thrusters. The player must mine gold from asteroids to advance to the next level, and avoid pirates. It was a project for Carnegie Mellon University's Game Creation Society In 2008.
RocketPod was my pet project for about a year, and it taught me quite a bit about programming, engine architecture, distribution, graphics, and the like. In particular, it was the first time I had learned to apply simple controllers to develop A.I that could move fluently in a physical environment, how to do fast collison detection, and how to design an engine architecture with data-driven development in mind.
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